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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-10-13

stretching out to the edge OF the world,
with buzzards swinging up ont OF nowhere,
more like something internal than any de-
cent Living thing; with coyotes yelpiiig and
crying all night-that Is another thing, and
the kind that doesn't get talked about
much. Perhaps youdon' rememher that
item In last winters newspapers-a half
dozen lines or so-two families frozen in
Texas norther, horses, dogs and all, just
as they stood.
That night we went into camp ten miles
from home. There was ravine and
plenty Of brush, and the horses were
ready to drop in their tracks, and that
last ten miles was one Of the things that
couldn't be done. So we got our fires
made and our horses fed and sheltered as
well as we could, and put some heart into
ourselves with buffalo steak and hot! cof-
fee, and the rest OF them packed them
selves into the wagon. Some one had to
stand guard and keep the fires going, and
/ took the contract.
8 It wasn't q dark night. There was g
goodish BIT Of moon behind the Clouds
and it made gray kind Of light over every
thing. We were at the bottom of q dry
canyon that ran east and west, and the
wind did not reach us. 1t screeched and
screamed over our heads, and through 1t
all there was kind Of moaning roar, as
If we were at the bottom Of tide as deep
as the stars are high. got to thinking
about old times away back, Of one Sum
day night Just before we were married.
had gone east little sooner than we ex-
pected, and had to wait for her things to
be finished. We went to church that
night. a keen, crisp, still night 1t was,
when the sleigh runners squeaked on the
snow and the moonlight traced the shad-
ows Of the elm on the white ground as If
they had been put In black drawing. The
church was warm and bright and they
hadn't taken down the Christmas green's
yet, sothe air full of the smell OF them
that spicy, haunting smell, that seems as
If it came somehow from world before
this. 80
Z It was years since / had smelled it, and
sat and listened to the music and looked
at the people, with their comfortable
clothing and faces that were cheerful, not
worn and wrinkled with care and weather.
Molly was IN awfully pretty girl in those
days; oil pink and white like IN apple
blossom, somehow. And fighting to. keep
awake out there in the heart Of D Kansas
prairie, got to thinking about her as she
was then and how she had changed. Skin
the color Of tanned leather now, and that
wild, hungry look In. her, blue eyes, as If
they were always staring into the dark for
something that frightened her. And both
her children dead, and not even spray
OF, the pine she loved SO, nor a breath Of
music; nothing but dirt floor and log
walls that did all that was expected OF
them II. they kept the weather ont.
u Somebody hailed over the top of the
bluff
What camps thatsn
q. ..sKenyon and mates. -
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-10-13

Sept l, 1887
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-30
The Market for Sassafras.

"It's twelve years now since | began to
supply the Chicago market with sassafra~, !"
said Thomas Sapp, the other day. Mr.. Sapp
is tall and portly gentleman from Indiana !;
his hair is gray and he wears on his chin a
tuft of whiskers OF the same shade. eyes,
sir, I've been in this line twelve years and
have some customers now that had at tho
first When started out didn't have much
of trade, but have built it up until now l
get rid of about 5000 worth year. Oh, yes,
it's pretty fair business You see the sassa-
fras that | sell and that which is sod in the
stores are two different things 1 cut mine
when the sap is in the root, the stores get
theirs when the sap is in the bsughs making
leaves. calculate that sassafras is good for
everybody. Now 1 come from the Terre
Haute region and know what am ticking
about.
"Sassafras has different effects upon differ
ent people The best way to take it is to eat
little of i>every day. Some folks will take
whole bunch and chew it down at once.
That's no way Some others will boil it
down, get the strength out of it and drink it
all at once That's no way, neither The
way to do is TO eat it a little at a time. It re-
lakes the system and opens the pores, letting
Iue impurities pass OUT IN tnaI way. NOW
there's one man in this town that have sold
tosfor twelve years, and from the fact that
during all that time he has been in one place
and at one desk l suspect that he's pretty
steady man. He says it does him good and
guess it does. What does the sassafras tree look
like7 Well, well, now, the sassafras tree
looks like-it looks LIKE should say that ii
resembes-well, it looks more like the black
gum than anything else that l know of. It's
great tree. Chicago Herald.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-30
Savannah's Colored Population.

A very considerable portion of the popula-
ton Of Savannah is colored What progress
the colored people have made, and what they
have done toward securing homes since they
began to look out for themselves, can be
easily seen by visiting the city's suburbs
For years they have been quiet but persistent
purchasers OF real estate. Their settlements,
Just without the municipal limits, almost en-
circle the city. It must not be supposed that
all Of their houses are mere shantieS Some
Of them are quite pretentious, and are s'Ir-
rounded by well kept gardens
These homes were not paid for in year or
two, but represent the proceeds Of years OF
patient toll and the most rigid economy. On
some of them there are still mortgages, which
there IS not much doubt viii be paid IN time
II Is a fact worth noticing that very few
colored men fail to meet the payment On their
homes, and when they do there is always q
good cause for the failure. And there is an,
other fact worth noticing. 1t IS that they
pay their taxes willingly and return their
property above, rather than below. its rnarke;
value. They are not yet sufficiently civilized
70 be tax dodsers.-Savannah Gal News
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-30
FOR SALE.

Improved and Unimproved City Property
on the best improved streets in the city.
Lots on the inside on street car lines and in
outside additions. Suburban lots on the east
side in Maple Grove addition.
Business lots and business blocks for sale
at special bargains. Several fine tracts near
the city for sub-dividing and plating
Improved farms and grass lands in all
parts of the county, also ranches in this and
adjoining counties.
All parties wishing to buy would do well
to call and examine my list before buying
elsewhere.
w. A. THOMAS,
The Oldest Real Estate Agency:in Wichita.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-30
DUCK HUNTING IN THE BAYOUS.
Disappearance of Ma1lards and Teal.
How Professionals Hunt.

DisapDearance of Ma1lards and Teal.
How Professionals Hunt.
The only explanation Of the disappearance
of the ducks from their former haunts near
the CITY is the destruction Of the feed-wild
celery, water cress, wild rice, et2 During
the past month these plants have died in such
quantities that the ducks have fed to other
feeding places, and those that remain behind
are remarkably thin and have fshy favor.
The unusually low water in the river and in
the swamps, in consequence of which most Of
the lagoons are dry, may have something to
do with the disappearance of these swamp
plants and the fight of the ducks.
The ducks have retired deeper into the
swamps and Lake Leray and Bayou des
Allemands have become the hunting grounds
for mallards and teal. The latter is one Of
the oldest hunting grounds in the Union, and
the supply of game is apparently as mex
haustible to-day as it was century and
half ago, when the Dutch hunters from whom
the bayou is named supplied the town of New
Orleans with ducks There are over 400 pro-
fessional hunters on Bayou DIES Allemands
alone, and from the single station of Bayou
DIES Allemants, on the Southern Pacific roads,
no less than 100000 ducks were shipped to
New Orleans last year, and as many as Il, 900
in a single day The average number killed
each year by a good professional hunter is
1000.
The professionals hunt in parties Of from
ten to thirty, and have regularly organized
camps in the center Of the swamp. They
have their rude huts built in the higher
patches of ground, and running from their
houses for miles back in the prairie are
bitches that they have cut, and which they
keep always open. 1t is through these
miniature canals that they push their pi-
rogues when searching for ducks Both sides
Of the bayou are complete networks OF these
bitches, running in all directions. The most
rigid observance is maintained of the rights
of ownership of these canals. 1t Is this that
prevents amateur hunters from accomplish
ing much in the way Of shooting ducks, as
they have no use of these canals and are I'M
able to force their pirogues, or dug outs,
through the thick matted grass everywhere
covering the swamp. Even the professionals
find this grass very troublesome, and moro
than half the ducks killed are lost in it.
Nearly all the best hunting grounds in the
bayou have thus been taken up, and the anna
teurs are left only the outlying districts,
where ducks are few and the hunting bad.
Just west of the duck fields are the snipe
and woodcock grounds, in ST. Mary parish,
where good hunter will pick off $50 snipe
and $50 woodcock day. Both snipe and
woodcock are abundant just now, and there
are some prairie chickens to be found also.
The supply of these, of wild turkeys, deer,
rabbits, and other game, is making good
some of the deficiency due to the lack of
ducks.-New Orleans Cor. New York Sun.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-30
Who Is the Great MANI

1t is not the habit Of people to suppose that
a great merchant or financier ranks with a
general who has won battles, but it not IN
commonly happens that the general is mere
granny outside Of his profession, and that
even the battles to which he owes his celebrity
were won as much by accident as by skillful
design. As to the display of courage called
for by war, it is not greater than men engaged
in the life saving service, fremen and engi-
neers and the police force are constantly
called upon to exercise. While ii is not I'M
natural that commanders of the first rank
should be admired, it is certain that there is
a good deal of vulgar and unnecessary toady-
ism 10 epaulets in general. Commonplace
military officers won't compare with good
mechanics in very many admirable traits,
and they cut too wide swath socially
Pittsburg CO 'onicle.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-30

The show apartment in the house Of Lady
BrasSey, whose Voyage on the Sunbeam"
made her famous as a clever woman as well
as the the wife of a rich man, is the monkey
boudoir 1t is described as snuggery to de-
light the soul of Darwin. The monkey is
adapted in all the details Of the decoration.
He climbs over walls, gambols on the frieze,
scrambles over the ceiling and is stuffed and
suspended in mid air wherever he can be
made picturesquely available. Monkeys are
worked in the tapestries, figure in the carpets
and rugs and are painted upon the piano and
carved upon its legs. The quaintneSs of the
conceit is only exceeded by the success with
which it has been Observation-Disclosures Letter.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-30

John Ruskin rises TO remark wrathily that
civilization is putting Its best iron into iro1
slads and stink ro.s
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-30
PARALLELS.

Earth sings her parallels Of loss and gain
In boldest speech.
Yet heights sublime which spirits shall atta1n
She cannot reach.
Aerial whispers float DER land and sea-
"It doth not yet appear what we shall be"
Her royal puppies and her crowns q gold,
Har white attire.
The sceptred lilies which her summers hold,
With flames afre,-
All fail to show the glory we shall See
SIT doth not yet appear what we shall be.
Who from unsightly bulb or slender root
Could guess Alright.
The glory of the flower. the fern, the fruit,
In summers height?
Through trenulous shadows voices call to me,
s.It doth not yet appear what we shall be"
Triumphant guesses from the seer and sage
Through shadows dart.
And tender meanings on the poets page
Console the heart.
o songs propheticI though so sweet are ye,
1T doth not yet appear what we shall be. ;"
Clara ThwaiteS.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-30

A Vienna tailor, wagered recently that 1t
took more than &c, 900 stitches to make a win
ter overcoat. To decide the question coat
was ordered, and committee Of experts sat
to superintend the work, as well as to see that
10 unnecessary stitches were made. The re-
suit was announced as follows: Body of the
coat, 4, $50 stitches; collar, SOS; sewing col
lar on, I,6S; buttonholes, 2,52o; sleeves, with
lining, $50: pockets. 924; silk lining Of body,
with wadded interior, 1858; braiding, ., 7228
Total. S66l9 Observation-Disclosures Zeit-
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-30
Mrs. CleXeland'a Handwriting.

Mrs Cleveland says she never feels tired
from shaking hands, either at the time or
afterward, however great the number she
thus greets consecutively. When some one
.aid TO her at one Of her noon receptions las.
week, you have now equaled the great
handshaking feats OF your husband, as the
papers say You shook hands with 81 in an
hour lately" she laughed ulerrily and an
swered: oh. OF course, I could rot afford
o let him get ahead of Inc. Chicago Tin eA
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-30

DR.. Talmage, OF Brooklyn, is good story.
teller. He has high regard for the discreet
men of the profession and plenty Of charity
for those who are inclined to be convivial
He appreciates a good joke, no matter a!
whose expense it may be.-New York Mail
and EXPRESS
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1887-12-31
The meteorological hlseting.

4 few weeks ago the SENTINEL pub.
l,shcd letter from the Chief Signal
Officer to the Observer of the Sign al
Service at Yuma, directing that steps
be taken to organize a meteorological
society at this place. This society
Will make known to the Chief OF the
Weather Service the wants of the peo-
PIE relative to the predicting of cold
waves etc. and will assist in making
that service generally useful to the
public.
a meeting composed of gentlemen
interested in the development of the
agricultural resources of this part of
Arizona was held in Yuma at the re
quest of the Observer, and the follow
iug names enrolled to represent their
sections:
John w. Darlington, Ed. Arizona
DR.. P. G. Cotter, DR.. J. H.
Taggart, o. F. Townsend, F. S. In.
gals, D. NJ. Harwood, c. II. Brinley
Of Yuma; F. L. Ewing, Araby; Ell.
Mayes, Antelope; Geo. ". Norton,
Mohawk; Saml. Pardy, f. Wagy,
Acc; Robt, MCPHERSON. ella Bend.
The warnings of cold waves and
o her data will he of great value to
this valley; as the varipus canals are
r tpidly being contracted, and it has
already been demonstrated that this
location is well suited for the cultiva-
ton of such fruits that require pro-
lection even in this favored climate.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1887-12-31
All Sorts ar Poison

LIZ. " L. Daley, Advertising Agent Of
the brooklyn EI.'Cau.d Railroad, writes:
''Intiamnatory rheumatism sweiled my
legs and arms TO twiee theIT natural sizc
! suffered excruriatrnc pam Your wou.
derful s. s.. lna:ie = complete euro.
MAJOR Sidney Herps t, editor Of tho
SonthrrH L'utscrt0r 0ad Utyfe Fu,n.e
Atlantis, Ca. vi ties: - have fully tested
the virtues of SwiIts Specific, both as q
rhenmat!sIn cure md tonic II hss done
oven more than lts prop ri.tors CHAIN fnr 1t.
Ar. hici'sti Long ~ . with the Stro-
brI' %e LitIIp:-raplic ia. Cincinnati, OHIO,
writes ] suffered Tor two yeais With O
tersinic t>!..u- 2n'f painful >o,es Oh my
neck, arms, hands nMa Ringers No ply
Stefan co"ld hep ua ). >. S Renewed
me perfectly and ] lea like il new man
Mis-. Amanda iI!-s &. q. i;Iston,a, II C,
writes: "My hah~. wi,n fcnr months
old. developed scr"'uia. He had two Sc
we're rIsings "nd S'r ',!n the t.eciS. sent
for our family phv.'c,sr w,;o rronnnnced
ii scroinla. Hnd pres, nL.d -, 4 |, Ivr il.
] gave the b. by S : s ami u ON pot
the dlsease und.r olutrol The SORES ,re
beal.d. and the bahv is well and heai.hy.
know 5. ). saved ats LIE, and told
our doctor SO He TX '.l ul.lr yhysiciau,
and prescribed s. y s Tor the la by a. soon
a. IA. saw IL had s"rofula.
Treatise on Blood nud Skin Disea.es
D,s,i-d free. IHK SWIFT sPLGItiC Co..
4Es1sz s, Ati.ntA, Ga
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1887-12-31
Another Scandal.

For some months past oaquin Acr.-
ia, wife and th.ir two small children,
have lived at the Paymaster mines,
where Acuna is employed. Both Acu-
no and wife were highly respected and
had hosts of friends. During the past
week however their friends We're as
founded by the news, that Mrs. Acuna
had eloped with Joaquin Delgado, de
serting her infant children. Mrs.
Acuna and her lover are said to have
come to town. Acuna immediately up
On discovering the shameless treachery
Of his spouse boarded the cars for
Yuma, and after remaining here, long
enough to arrange some business mat
sers, left for Hermosillo with his little
children, where he will leave them in
care of his mother. All parties con-
cerned are we'll connected, and the
Affair has created some excitement and
Indignation.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1887-12-31

Formerly great quantity Of placer
GOLD WIS taken from the district of La
Paz and Ehrcnburg in Arizona, on the
Colorado river. There Is no mistaking
the richness of these digsings, but the
scarcity of water renders the working
OF them almost an impossibilitY, and
various plans have been adopted to
supply water, but as yet without sue
eess. Mr.. J. H. Burger has Just re-
turned from that district and has five
or six nuggets worth $40, and some
finer gold worth S65. Two thirds Of
the district have not been toucbad
because water can not be had. If
company could hoist water from the
Colorado and pipe it over the district
success would be certain.-Phpnix
Herald.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1887-12-31
TIE COLORADO a,vsR CANAL.

The Colorado river canal company
have hied their arsicles OF incolpors-
tion, and are preparing for business.
The dam TO be- ouiiS across the Colo
rado river is at point about % miles
,.UQve Yuma. The dam will be con-
structed so as not TO enterfere with
navigation and viii raise the water
about fifteen feet, and water taken out
into tvo- canals, one in Yuma county
and tEe other in San Diego county.
The Object in damming the river is to
have a sufficient head that the canals
can at any time rid themselves Of the
mud in the bottom of the waterways;
the maia difficulty in ditcbing the
Colorado has always been to get rid Of
..che sediment; this plan will undoubt-
edly be successful, and the waters
supply being boundless, there can be
10 limit to the capabilities of this
grand enterprise. Congress will be
asked to grant the company fran
chiss and immediately upon obtaining
the right, work will be inaugurated.
The waters of the Colorado will be
used not only in Arizona but also in
ir.igating that magnificent piece of
country which extends to New Water,
California. At Stevenson's Island, the
head of the Arizona canal will be
taken out and the life giving liquid
will be carried over the thousands of
acres of land, until the ella river Is
reached, when the water will be fun
ed across the ella and carried to the
magnificent lands below slear to the
Mexican line, and perhaps on to the
lovely fields of Sonora itself. The
canal will be q success and through its
agency viii develop this country into a
veritable land of oriental wealth and
solid pro speri y. As stated before the
only difficulty heretofore found in
taking out irrigating canals from the
Colorado, has been the trouble in
the sediment, and, this will
be overcome, by the plan proposed by
the Canal company. The canals will
irrigate some 100000 acres of as
ine laui, as the SIN shines upon.
Land which will produce wealth
enough for a nation of people, and
build up immense communities of ill.,
telligent and prosperous citizens.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1887-12-31

4
Look at the condition of business il
the 9. S. at present, and answer
whether there is too much money il
circulation or not. The banks every
where contracting their discounts, snu
money tight from Maine 10 MEXICO,
and from Florida to Oregon. " hei.
more is required, the gold bugs would
have the volume reduced by stopping
the coinage Of silver. DO they not see
that it is the coinage of silver since
1878 that has preserved the business
interests of the country until the
present hour2 Do they not see that if
we had not coined 2S0,000,000 silver
dollars since 1873 that We would long
ago hare had panicf For even with
the aid of this mighty volume of
money, look at the condition of bust
ness affairs to-day. The U. S. govern
ment ought to buy every dollar of gold
and silver bullion as fast as it comes
from the mines and coin it sll into
money, and put it into circulation as
fast as coined, either by certificates or
otherwise. Our money volume is only
S25 per capita, while that of France is
$50 per capita, and with this little
volume we are endeavoring to carry
on the gigantic business interests of
this nation. Nay, we never can have
enough, until more liberal policy is
adopted by our government, and our
great mining region is worked to its
fullest capacity. With an increase Of
100000 Of people year, which re-
quires S75,000,000 increase in the cir
culating medium merely to give the
increased population their share of the
money, We are not gaining dollar
over the SIS per capita we now have.
How, then, are we going to increase
the amount per capita from S25 to $40
which we ought to have, except by an
immense increase in the production o.
the precious metals4 To this every
right minded person should direct
their thoughts and they should see to
it, that no man goes to congress who
is not in favor of more money per
capita, and that that money should be
in gold and silver, or in certificates
based uron these metals. The gold
bug theory is grinding the faces of the
people and never give the subject
rest until congress shall again fully
remonetize silver and open the minis
to free and unlimited coinage. This
course alone will cut tn Gordian knot
OF poverty and set the people free.
Look to it every man of you who has
a vote in national affairsr.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1887-12-31

On Saturday morning Barney Rigs:
received his pardon from Governor
z llick. Barney Riggs earned bis
hcetlom when he saved the worthy
superintendent's life, and the SENT
MEL, believes that the Governor did
what was right in granting the man
h;s liberty; tho Sentinel was the first
newspaper to ask for Riggs, releas e
a"d h.si the satisfaction of being in
dprsed ill the matter by the press of
the ensire Territory.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1887-12-31

Today marks the close of another
year, and with the enterprises under
way in this county, we believe they will
soon begin tc bear fruit. The year 1888
will be one of great change for Yuma
county; our lands will be far1ned, our
v-lleys and nesas populated by hun
dreds Of desirable people. Already the
immigrants are headed in this direc
tioll, and each passing day will Increase
their numbers.